FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with allegedly threatening an FBI particular agent who had been concerned in an investigation into the dissemination of private information from Hunter Biden’s laptop, federal prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
Timothy Muller allegedly referred to as the FBI agent Tuesday shortly after a federal jury in Delaware introduced its responsible verdict towards Hunter Biden. President Joe Biden’s son was convicted of three felonies in a federal gun trial.
The agent — who relies in Baltimore — hung up, prosecutors mentioned in a information launch, and Muller referred to as again and threatened the agent and his household in a voicemail that lasted greater than a minute.
“You possibly can run, however you’ll be able to’t (expletive) conceal,” Muller allegedly mentioned to the agent.
Muller allegedly continued that former President Donald Trump would win reelection, “after which we’re gonna (expletive) undergo the FBI and simply begin throwing you (expletive)s into jail. Or, you’ll be able to steal one other election, after which the weapons will come out, and we’ll hunt you (expletive)s down and slaughter you just like the traitorous canines you might be in your individual (expletive) properties.”
After leaving the voicemail, Muller then despatched a number of textual content messages to the agent, together with: “How’s the household? Secure?” and “Did you (expletive)s actually assume you have been going to disenfranchise 75 million Individuals and never die? Lol.”
The particular agent’s identify was not made public.
Muller, 43, of Fort Value, Texas, is charged with interstate threatening communications and influencing, impeding or retaliating towards a federal official. He faces as much as 10 years in jail if he’s convicted.
His federal public defender didn’t instantly return a request for remark Thursday.
The long-running laptop saga started with a New York Put up story in October 2020 that detailed a few of the emails it mentioned have been discovered on the gadget associated to Hunter Biden’s overseas enterprise dealings. It was swiftly seized on by Trump as a marketing campaign difficulty in the course of the presidential election that yr.
The Wilmington, Delaware, laptop restore store proprietor has mentioned Hunter Biden dropped a laptop computer off at his retailer in April 2019 and by no means returned to select it up. The proprietor, John Paul Mac Isaac, admitted in his 2022 e-book to reviewing personal and delicate materials from Biden’s laptop computer, together with a file titled “earnings.pdf.” He later contacted Republicans to evaluation and disseminate the fabric.